author
Margot Asquith
1864–1945
A sharp-eyed memoirist and celebrated wit, she moved at the center of British political and social life and turned those experiences into lively, outspoken books. Best known as the wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, she remains an unforgettable Edwardian voice in her own right.
2 Audiobooks
My Impressions of America
by Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
by Margot Asquith
About the author
Born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant in Scotland in 1864, Margot Asquith became a well-known figure in late Victorian and Edwardian society for her intelligence, humor, and strong personality. She was part of the social circle known as "The Souls," and after her 1894 marriage to H. H. Asquith, she found herself close to the heart of British public life.
She wrote with the same energy she brought to conversation. Her memoirs and diaries, especially The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, are remembered for their vivid portraits of political and social life, as well as for their candor and self-confidence. That mix of glamour, observation, and blunt honesty helped make her one of the most distinctive literary personalities of her time.
Although she is often introduced through her connection to a prime minister, her writing gives her a clear place of her own in literary history: funny, opinionated, perceptive, and impossible to ignore. She died in London in 1945.